March 2, 2017

In Praise of Zeman - with Ludmila Zeman and Linda Zeman-Spaleny

 

3:00pm Slavic Colloquium Lecture by Malynne Sternstein and Screening of Inspirace   

Location: University of Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities [1100 East 57^th Street]

A short film about the love story between a harlequin and his columbine done entirely with glass puppets.

link https://ceeres.uchicago.edu/content/praisezeman

 

7:00pm Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

Location: University of Chicago, Logan Screening Room [915 East 60^th Street]

Film documentary looking back at the life, work and significance of the genius of world cinema and tricks pioneer who without digital effects brought audiences back to prehistory, forward to the Moon and deep under the Sea. Some of the secrets of this film magician get reveled as famous scenes are recreated in the way they were originally filmed many decades ago.

link https://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/events/2017/film-adventurer-karel-zeman

trailer http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/cz/filmovy-dobrodruh/trailer

 

March 4-5, 2017

U.S. premiere of  Fabulous Baron Munchausen  at the 20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival - with Ludmila Zeman and Linda Zeman-Spaleny

 

Join us at  the  20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival. The largest festival in the nation showcasing films of all the European Union nations. This anniversary festival will feature the new digitally restaured version of  Fabulous Baron Munchausen.

March 4:

7 pm:   Reception  with with Ludmila Zeman and Linda Zeman Spaleny hosted by  the  Prague Committee of the Sister Cities  and the  Consulate General of the Czech Republic

8 pm:   screening of Fabulous Baron Munchhausen followed by audience discussion with Ludmila  Zeman and Linda Zeman Spaleny

Location: Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 164 N. State Street Chicago

 

March 5:

5:15 pm:   screening of Fabulous Baron Munchhausen followed by audience discussion with  Ludmila   Zeman and Linda Zeman Spaleny

Location: Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 164 N. State Street Chicago

 

Engravings by Gustave Doré and the films of Georges Méliès are only a few of the visual inspirations referenced by Zeman’s wildly fantastical animated treatment of the book by Gottfried August Bürger. The foppish dandy Baron Munchausen lands on the moon to discover that he is not the only extraterrestrial explorer. Mistaking fellow earthling Tony for a moon-man, he endeavors to introduce the stranger to earth, traveling in a spaceship powered by winged horses. The two land in 18th-century Turkey and become rivals for the Princess Bianca, prisoner of the sultan. Zeman’s film later served as inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s 1988 Munchausen adaptation. The screening will be followed by discussion with Ludmila Zeman and Linda Spaleny, who undertook the restoration in cooperation with Prague’s Karel Zeman Museum.

 link http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/baronmunchausen

 trailer: http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/ceuff/2017/festivalfilms

 

March 10-11, 2017

European Union Film Festival – screening of Family Film with a co-star Jenovéfa Boková

 

Jenovéfa Boková is an actress known for Family Film (2015), Identity Card (2010) and Revival (2013). Jenovéfa is the daughter of a famous Czech human rights activist John Bok.

March 10,  8:00 pm:   screening of Family Film followed by audience discussion with Jenovéfa Boková 

Location: Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 164 N. State Street Chicago

 

March 11,  6:15 pm:   screening of Family Film followed by audience discussion with Jenovéfa Boková 

Location: Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 164 N. State Street Chicago       

 

An affluent husband and wife craving the giddy thrill of an extended midlife second honeymoon leave their teen son and daughter to their own devices as they embark on a weeks-long sailboat holiday in the Indian Ocean. Flaunting an emancipated parenting style, they check in by Skype while blithely sunbathing nude, unaware that the kids have initiated their own experiments in boundary-free living, including but not limited to sex. Director Omerzu (A NIGHT TOO YOUNG) steers this official Czech submission for Oscar consideration into uncharted waters, where the fate of the family is buffeted by shipwreck on one side and the emergence of a cataclysmic secret on the other. The plucky family dog unexpectedly plays a key role.

link:http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/familyfilm

trailer: http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/ceuff/2017/festivalfilms

 

March 12, 2017

Czech Catholic Mission  - screening of Identity Card with a co-star Jenovéfa Boková

 

Jenovéfa Boková is an actress known for Family Film (2015), Identity Card (2010) and Revival (2013). Jenovéfa is the daughter of a famous Czech human rights activist John Bok.

March 12, 1:00 pm  screening of Identity Card followed by audience discussion with Jenovéfa Boková 

Location:  Czech Catholic Mission, 9415 Rochester Ave, Brookfield, IL 60513

 

Identity Card is a Czech bitter comedy film by Ondřej Trojan based on a story by Petr Šabach. The movie is set in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and gives a clear picture of the socio-political environment of that period marked formally by big ideals, which nobody trusted anymore. A time of creepy repression reaching into even minor detail of everyone's private and social life.

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lj04ZwZTs